Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!ncar!tank!uxc!ksuvax1!eecea!terry From: terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Terry Hull) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Bell Tech W.G.E. use with "sissy" unix Message-ID: <428@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> Date: 4 Oct 88 02:11:09 GMT References: <438@l5comp.UUCP> Reply-To: terry@eecea.UUCP (Terry Hull) Organization: Kansas State University, Manhattan Lines: 19 In article <438@l5comp.UUCP> scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner) writes: > >Sanity check, can you even USE the W.G.E. card? > >That isn't as silly as it sounds. The driver supplied for the card maps >the 82786's registers into memory so they can be accessed rapidly and >easily. But if your system has a SRAM cache you may be in for a VERY >nasty surprise! I have a Xenix system and now that streams is available for it I was going to get the WGE card. I have an Intel Inboard/386 with a cache. Since it has a mixture of 16 and 32 bit memory, it would be very slow without the cache. Does this mean that I am doomed to no cache if I want to use the WGE? Bell Tech, do you have anything to say on this point? Also when are we going to see X11 for this board? -- Terry Hull Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Kansas State University INTERNET: terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu Manhattan, KS 66502 UUCP: {pyramid,ucsd}!ncr-sd!ncrwic!ksuvax1!eecea!terry